I'm not a Browning guy, but a friend just picked up a Safari Grade in 264 mag. It is absolutely beautiful. It is in great shape.
What are they bringing?

I picked up a Safari Grade .308 on the Browning FN small ring M98 action for $700.00 a couple of years ago, but I think that was a very reasonable price. And more recently I found a couple of 30-06 barreled actions on the standard large ring action, for ~$500.00 apiece.

I expect a nice, complete .264 without salt wood would be somewhere north of 1K, but I do not know by how much.

And lots of guys apparently do not like the nearly flush bolt stop/ejector assembly, but I do. And I like the M70 - type trigger.

No salt wood. Tooik the barreled action out for photos and no rust. I believe it is on Gunbroker now.

I love the browning safaris, they just fit me very well. I had one in 264, no salt wood, fabulous shape with very few handling marks on it, but it had a 22" barrel, which was the standard length they put on them.

I had about $1k into it once I sold the scope that was on it. I expected to be able to get about $1400, but had a great deal of difficulty selling it. My sense is these just don't have the allure of other makes and the bbl length hampered the marketability. I ended up selling it for $1100 to Shooting Investments after having it on the market for quite awhile.

Kim's is a FNmodel and very clean. He would like to get $1000 without the scope. I have photos.

The short barrel on a lot of these is what threw me off when I was looking at 264s.

Just an FYI, the original 264 came out with a 24" barrel and if memory serves me was made that way for just under a year and a half before the featherweight craze caused the replacement with the 22"...

It is a 22"barrel.